Doctor Zhivago By: Boris Pasternak Prepared, Analyzed, and Presented by: Dr. Rehab Akkawi Dar Al-Harf Al-Arabi First Edition: 2007 272 pages "History does not spare lovers, but literature grants them immortality.." Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago" was not just a book, but a geo-political earthquake that reshaped 20th-century literature! The novel was immediately banned in the Soviet Union and considered high treason. The American CIA printed it and secretly smuggled it into Soviet territory in the form of small booklets! When it won the Nobel Prize in 1958, Pasternak was forced under threat to refuse the prize and submit to house arrest! Why is it considered an exceptional epic? A magical blend between a tragic love story of the utmost tenderness, and the horrors of the Russian Revolution and fighting in the ice. A psychological dissection of the feelings of the poet and lover "Yuri Zhivago," torn between his duty and his wife, and his impossible love for "Lara."